Word: zealousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zealous as ever, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller has thrown himself into a campaign to prove that he is one political animal that can change its spots. His goal: to convince powerful G.O.P. conservatives that the liberal they used to hate has become a middle-of-the-roader they can learn to tolerate, if not to love...
...soft spoken Marxist, Samphan is expected to try to transform his nation into a one-party Communist-dominated state. In fact, in those areas that have been controlled by the insurgents for some time, there have been zealous efforts to sweep away the traditional easygoing habits of old Cambodia. A highly politicized, regimented life has been stressed, peasants have been herded into communes, and the state has acquired a dominant authority over private activities...
Born the son of a small-town salt merchant in Chekiang province on China's central coast, Chiang trained as a soldier, spoke like a revolutionary, and seemed destined for power. His climb began with an introduction, through a friend, to Sun Yatsen, the zealous revolutionary whose nationalistic movement brought down the already doddering Manchu empire in 1911. Cadet Chiang, a 24-year-old student at a military school in Japan, rushed home to join Sun's fledgling revolution. Chiang rose steadily through the military ranks of Sun's Canton-based Kuomintang (Nationalist Party...
...Portugal, the Communist Party of Alvaro Cunhal, backed by leftist-minded officers of the ruling junta, has emerged as the most zealous and disciplined political group in the country since the April 1974 revolution. Some observers fear that something comparable may eventually happen in neighboring Spain, where the reactionary government of aging Dictator Francisco Franco totters from crisis to crisis...
...gets a sense from these biographies of women as people. Despite the handicaps built into being female, they emerge as sincere, as zealous, as short-sighted, as inventive, as amusing, as self-interested, as generous, and, above all, as capable of defining themselves in terms of or against a social system over which they have no direct control, as any other human beings. There are lives of inspiration here as well as biographies which command less respect. Large numbers of women went into foreign mission work, because it was socially acceptable. Women were among the first critics...